Wind industry is putting on a brave face. Elections translate into support for renewable energy:

[joshcryer]

The wind industry is putting on a brave face. It says that the results midterm election translate into support for renewable energy. At the federal level, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is pushing for an extension of tax incentives.

Denise Bode, CEO of AWEA, is still hopeful the industry can maintain policies that are in place and even expand on its legislative priority, a national standard for the procurement and sale of clean electricity.

Despite the odds, the industry is holding out hope that Congress will consider parts of a renewable electricity standard (RES.) AWEA hopes the RES can be handled as one of the "chunks" of energy policy referred to by political leaders last week, rather than have it in an overarching bill that gets bogged down in political stalemate.

The prospects of a major bill are doubtful, renewable energy lobbyists concede.

http://www.ieca.net/news/story.cfm?id=20668

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Oh lobbiests. :rofl:

edit: to put in a excerpt tag

[drm604]

1. Just to make it clear if it isn't obvious to anyone...

IECA is an oil industry association

http://www.ieca.net/about/

[joshcryer]

2. I tried to find a direct source from AWEA, to no avail. Saw it on Google news.

http://www.energybiz.com/article/10/11/states-are-labs-wind

It does stand to reason that they see tax credits as a good thing, and that the GOP House will hand them out.

Apologies for not double checking the source beforehand.

[joshcryer]

3. Oh wow, it appears that this site has a lot of pro-wind / renwable comments:

http://www.ieca.net/news/story.cfm?id=20657

http://www.ieca.net/news/story.cfm?id=20556

http://www.ieca.net/news/story.cfm?id=20220

http://www.ieca.net/news/story.cfm?id=20017

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aieca.net+wind

[Nihil]

4. Surely not?

Remember the bit about "IECA is an oil industry association"?

If "IECA is an oil industry association" and "<IECA> has a lot
of pro-wind / renewable comments" then we *have* to believe
that the wind & other renewable industries are evil, being linked
as they are to the fossil fuel industry.

Or does "K-logic" have yet another special case for this?
:eyes:

[joshcryer]

5. I thought it was pretty funny, myself.

I didn't really expect the corporation to support renewables and felt embarrassed for linking them, but it's clear that they'd benefit the most from an all renewable focus.

[badtoworse]

6. Shell Oil owns and operates substantial onshore wind assets...

and has a substantial portfolio of projects in various stages of development. If memory serves, their net project equity is about 1,000 MW

[joshcryer]

7. It shouldn't surprise me.

I get misled by people claiming these industries are pro-environment. :(

[Nihil]

8. Don't feel bad: it just means that someone is having to earn his money ...

... Amory Lovins for example.

For all that certain people on this forum like to knock him,
he certainly knows how to market the fossil fuel industry
in a convincing manner.

:-(